Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unscheduled Stop. In South Bend, Ind., sharp-eyed Bus Driver Virgil Hoover spotted his daughter straying farther from home than rules permitted, pulled to the curb and let his passengers wait while he got out and gave the five-year-old a sound paddling...
...Generation" art in London. He took the occasion to blast at what was wrong with British painting. Said he: "In Britain everything is so foul and filthy that artists either go crazy, become surrealist or get into a rut. The clockwork morality of Britain that one feels on a bus, the inhumanity, the rigidity-it's a wonder that anyone paints at all." British art "is all just inspired sketching. That's what the people want. It's not considered gentlemanly to have ideas, so even the best only dabble...
...Italy, the black market took on an official tone. When he asked the customs inspector at the Littoria airport to exchange dollars, the inspector regretted that he could give only the official exchange of 220 lire. But he pointed to a bus driver who would give 500. By haggling in Rome the adman...
Caches. In Chillicothe, Mo., a nervous second-hand dealer looked up the car he'd sold six days before, opened the trunk, pulled out $2,000, explained to the new owner: "That was my bank-I forgot." Near Chicago, Ralph Dean wiggled his big toe while taking a bus ride, felt far too comfortable, frantically remembered the four $20 bills he was saving; cops got his money back from the cobbler who had put new heels on Dean's shoes...
Today, at 86, a retired Harvard professor, Philosopher Whitehead lives quietly in Cambridge, Mass., seeing only friends (and never the press),*reading history and philosophy, and recalling the past. On long London bus rides he used to amuse himself by imagining the great figures of history as his companions. He liked to wonder what they would think of what he saw about him. This week, in Whitehead's newly published Essays in Science and Philosophy (Philosophical Library; $4.75), readers will find this same sense of continuity and perspective...